#this is the worst bucklemming ep ive ever seen i think

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Look I really don’t want to be negative, you know I am SPN positive like, pretty much all the time and there were good things in this episode, hence my immediate post watching list of good stuff.

But seriously. They just need to get their shit together on coherent story telling. Plus most of the good stuff is stuff that is clearly a season long arc and not their choosing. Sigh. So... 

Bucklemming appropriate wank below the cut

Somehow Lucifer and Jack can hold a bible but Kelly, the victim can’t? What level of making the victim of rape the dirty one is this? WHAT THE FUCK?

Danneel is brought in to play a badass business woman but she still ends up using her “womanly wiles” to seduce Lucifer into keeping her around in a very sexual manner where this was totally un-freaking called for and would have been so much more powerful if she had done it just with her words, which were pretty good, like, fair play Bucklemming her speech was good, it did not need sexualising.

So, Lucifer stabs Gabriel with a blade that looks like a normal Angel blade but is hyped for 8 seasons as an Archangel blade (in canon, ignoring theories that he wasn’t really dead because that still makes no sense re Lucifer’s idiocy of not being able to tell). Then now we see a real, apparently, Archangel blade, that looks totally different. So what, Lucifer is a moron and couldn’t tell the difference? It somehow got changed? It’s from an AU? Every Archangel’s blade looks different and Gabriel’s originally looked like a normal blade or he created a fake one that didn't even look like his real one? I MEAN? NOTHING HERE MAKES SENSE. The next competent writers are gonna have to fix this.

Ketch. Saving. The Poor Helpless Winchesters. No.

Angel grace recharges itself? So what about Cas in season 9? Given that in theory in canon given Gadreel he should have a little grace left, this only works if he really has ZERO left. If he does have a smidgen as per canon implies he would then there are roundabout ways around this in particular sure but they need acrobatics and metaphors to work physiologically and this just opens a huge can of worms tbh. You have to go with he had zero and forget Gadreel or make it a different situation through throat slitting / vessel habitation. You have to MAKE it work.

There genuinely is no valid reason I can see at all for Cas being bloody in his mouth and on his collar, falling down in a heap and passing out after that Lucifer “fight scene”. Lucifer nicks him slightly and he is fine and stabs him back. There is nothing here that shows Lucifer getting the upper hand. There is no reason for Cas to be banished into a field. Lucifer shouldn’t even have that power yet. Even then if he is banished, he’d then in theory based on past canon be MILES away from the place he left Lucifer and why would he bother going back, he’d be LONG gone. Also the demons wouldn’t be prowling? Also Lucifer was fine in his cell, just depowered, for weeks then he gets out and suddenly is dizzy, something big happened to him too. Like - there has to be a deleted scene here. OR the only thing that makes sense is that we don’t see it happen but Lucifer manages to get some grace power together to banish Cas (without a sigil) and this depowers him. But this isn’t shown. And why would it make Cas bleed from the mouth and wander around in agony? It never has before. I’m willing to let go of this from Bucklemmings’ pov this could be an editing error not theirs but honestly who is putting this all together and making sure it all works and is clear? THEY SUCK AT THEIR JOB.

Basically it’s not an awful ep because there are good themes and there are good one off bits, but the general gist is a shit show of crappy writing and omitting of canon, sometimes even their own, in order to insert problematic material. I’m sorry, I’m usually positive and I will be about the good bits in this ep and this is what I will focus on but I will not let people perusing my blog think that I forgive them for the rest because I really don’t. This is not acceptable. Even the stuff that is potentially explainable you have to really think about and that’s asking too much of the GA who don’t even think about the obvious stuff most of the time let alone these acrobatics of canon fuckery.

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Anyway besides the rest of all the shit (and woman shaming) writing am I supposed to believe that Lucifer didn’t know he wasn’t holding an Archangel Blade in Hammer of the Gods when he “killed” Gabriel? Cos this one is totally different.

Being an Archangel himself you’d think he’d recognise one that’s - not - an Archangel blade and therefore he can’t be killing Gabriel.

Or did he kill Gabriel with an Archangel blade and is someone else actually competent at writing gonna have to fix this by idk, explaining that this is an AU or changed somehow blade and that’s why it looks different.

Sigh. I so wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt but they literally had 2 fan favourite actors / characters in and didn’t bother writing a coherent episode, just rested on the fact that this would appease people so didn’t even try to be coherent with past canon or even some of their OWN EPISODES from just last year.

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Oh and another example of ignoring canon “if he were lying I would have known it” - Cas on Lucifer.

That didn’t work out well regarding Metatron did it Cas?

#Dabb please stop Bucklemming ruining characters and past canon ffs I thought u were reining them in

Look I really don’t want to be negative, you know I am SPN positive like, pretty much all the time and there were good things in this episode, hence my immediate post watching list of good stuff.

But seriously. They just need to get their shit together on coherent story telling. Plus most of the good stuff is stuff that is clearly a season long arc and not their choosing. Sigh. So… 

Bucklemming appropriate wank below the cut

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